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‘The barley is malted to convert the starch, or complex carbohydrates, into sugar through a tedious process.’

‘TransCon is researching the opportunity to malt alternative grains from the fields of its producers.’

‘Before barley can be used to make beer, it must be malted, which involves a natural conversion process.’

‘According to Okanagan Springs, the Bavarian Purity Law restricts beer to barley, water, hops and yeast, but in fact, the law permits the use of any type of grain so long as it has been malted.’

‘Wheat and rye were cultivated almost exclusively for human consumption, but because oats and barley were grown for fodder as well as human food, and barley could be malted, they were better crops for most farmers.’

‘These, along with barley dust generated during malting, are processed into cattle feed.’

‘This process is called malting and the product is malt.’

‘By then Mr Dilger hopes to have redefined Greencore as a convenience foods group with far less emphasis on sugar beet processing, malting barley, and agribusiness.’

‘These materials can be broken down to simple six- and 12-carbon sugars by malting, a process utilizing acids or enzymes’

‘He completed an intense one week residential ‘introduction to malting and brewing course’ back on October 1999.’

‘As abstinence became popular in the second half of the 19th century, there was a shift from brewing to malting.’

‘TransCon is initially focusing on three areas of concentration: distribution, malting and brewing operations.’

‘Suitable as feed for beef and dairy cattle, Garnet is also proving ideal for malting and brewing.’

‘It was eaten as porridge and made into unleavened bread and malted for beer.’

‘Known as malting, this procedure releases the enzyme diastase, which converts the starches in grain to maltose sugar.’